KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court in Karachi has declared proclaimed offenders 17 absconding suspects of the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), a global terrorist group, in a case pertaining to the 2018 attack on the Chinese consulate in Sindh capital and executed permanent arrest warrants for them. The attack was later claimed by the Afghanistan-based BLA. During the hearing on Saturday, the ATC VII directed the officials to make public the sketches of the suspected militants and also confiscate their moveable and immovable assets. The counter-terrorism department (CTD) booked and detained Mohammad Aslam; Ahmed Hasnain; Ali Ahmed, alias Hashim; Nadir Khan, alias Arif Buledi and Abdul Latif — all said to be associated with the BLA — for allegedly helping the militants who attacked the consulate. “The terrorists used fake computerised national identity cards,” Karachi police chief Dr Amir Ahmed Shaikh revealed following a probe in January 2019.

Source: Pakistan Today December 26, 2020 11:32 UTC